KANSAS by D. T. Bourdeau

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 12, 1878

KANSAS

By D. T. Bourdeau

I have spent two more weeks in and near the township of Oswego, laboring for the church and for others who had been affected by an opposition to the work of the third message, especially to the spirit of prophecy. I have held fifteen meetings, and have labored much from house to house. Nine have been added to the church, and at our last meeting a young man took his first public stand for Christ, making ten additions. Others would have united with the church had they not been necessarily detained from attending our meetings.

Eight of those who united with the church were heads of families, and had been under the influence of an opposition similar in nature to that which started in Iowa about fourteen years ago. It came under a little different name, but its object was the same. The opposition in Iowa created a necessity for God to bestow special blessings upon that State. At that time there were only about three hundred believers in the State, there are now more than five times that number; at that time the cause was crippled by the apostasy of the only two active ministers in the State, there are to-day in that field more than twenty active laborers. It may be even so with the aggression that has for a while raged in this field. If those who have the cause of God at heart are faithful and in earnest, God will bless Kansas.

We shall ever hold in grateful remembrance the kindness shown us by the Oswego church, and the precious seasons enjoyed with Bro. and Sr. Grant and Bro. and Sr. Stover and their children, whom we knew in Iowa.

D. T. BOURDEAU.